Commission Report Cites Rescue Communication Flaws

Commission report cites rescue communication flaws

The Nine-Eleven Commission says rescuers were forced to make rapid-fire, life-and-death decisions based on incomplete communications. Two days of hearings by the commission investigating the terror attacks are getting under way in New York this morning. The panel opened the hearings with a warning: "The details we will be presenting may be painful for you to see and hear." More than 100 family members are at the hearing -- some with photos of victims pinned to their chests. The commission plans to view videotapes showing the confusing, rushed recovery efforts and the recollections of those who survived. The commission is turning its attention to New York to see if local missteps led to deaths that might have been avoided at the World Trade Center. Up to now, the commission had been focusing on federal failures.

(AP Photo/Jennifer Kay). Six crosses are placed at a makeshift memorial on the Florida International University campus in Miami on Saturday, March 17, 2018, near the scene of a pedestrian bridge collapse that killed at least six people on March 15.

A matter of seconds between those who would live and those who would die as Florida pedestrian bridge topples down highway bustling with passing vehicles.

Cincinnati City Council Members (right to left) Jeff Pastor, Christopher Smitherman and Amy Murray passed a resignation deal Monday for City Manager Harry Black, but it's expected to be defeated in a full Council vote later this week. (FOX19 NOW)

A $393,000 resignation deal City Manager Harry Black and Mayor John Cranley agreed to over the weekend easily cleared its first round of approval Monday morning, but still faces defeat later this week.

A $393,000 resignation deal City Manager Harry Black and Mayor John Cranley agreed to over the weekend easily cleared its first round of approval Monday morning, but still faces defeat later this week.

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino). Pope Francis sits among youths for a group photo during the opening session of the pre-synod of the youths meeting, at the the Mater Ecclesiae college in Rome, Monday, March 19, 2018.

Pope Francis has asked forgiveness for all Christians who buy sex from women, telling a roomful of young people that frequenting prostitutes is a crime against humanity and the sign of a "sick mentality" that...

Pope Francis has asked forgiveness for all Christians who buy sex from women, telling a roomful of young people that frequenting prostitutes is a crime against humanity and the sign of a "sick mentality" that thinks that women exist to be exploited.